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| Dude what are you talking about? Being seen is just a perception. It is the work that is completed and what you produce. You can be in the office doing nothing just as easily as doing nothing at home. Granted there is the old mentality with bosses that is if an employee is not seen doing work then, they are not. Our group has the option to work at home and we all do so. The work we do as network engineers allows us to be working anywhere that has internet access and cellular coverage. For the most part some of the fortune 500 company we deal with have closed offices and left a single office open for workers in a 100 mile radius to go to for meetings. The reason for that was to save in office leasing and MAC charges( Move, Add, Changes). Granted some companies like AT&T are trying to reign in the telecommuters so they can have oversight, maybe because they believe the workers are not working or because they believe workers can't work unless they have a manger hang over their shoulder. | |
| Telecommuting Although telecommuting sounds blissful, the reality is that it's not always a feasable option for many jobs. In addition, there are many situations, for instance mentoring and evaluating new hires, where you need daily, personal interaction.
More worrisome is an issue that no one seems to address in this era of the global, multi-national corporations--the trend to reduce the number of "employees" through conversion to contract positions. In the US, for tax and other legal purposes, the traditional business law concept of "agency" is used to determine if one is an employee or independent contractor. Among the factors considered, is the level of control, whether busniess tools are provided and business facilities. The more corporations can back away from the various factors considered by courts and government entitites the more successful they will be in converting a significant portion of employee positions to independent contractor positions. Although this may not necessarily be bad in all instances, it will be yet another significant sea change for future generations. | |
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